A reboot of Peter Shaffer’s play hopes to repeat the 1984 film’s magic and lure a fresh audience to classical music ...

But the question “Who killed Mozart?” has never been a medical one. As William Stafford argued in The Mozart Myths (1991), ...

New Sky Amadeus Trailer Released Sky has just dropped the full trailer for its upcoming limited series based on Peter Shaffer’s classic play Amadeus. The vid ...

He was making concert tours by the age of 6, performing like a trained seal for the amusement of kings and bishops. Soon the pint-sized 18th century composer was creating music of such dazzling ...

While an epic biographical drama about dueling classic music composers in 18th century Vienna doesn’t necessarily sound like the stuff of box office gold, Amadeus, the fictionalized tale of the ...

When you’re young, you want the hits. Those songs that enliven you, connect you to pop culture and showcase some of the major players on the music scene who are shaping the future. But after you live ...

The dramatic contrast between genius and journeyman has seldom been better exploited than in Peter Shaffer's modern classic Amadeus. Shaffer rooted his shrewdly speculative play on the rivalry between ...

Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756–1791) was arguably the most gifted musician in the history of classical music. His inspiration is often described as 'divine', but he worked ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday is being celebrated in a major way Friday in Salzburg, Austria, the composer's birthplace. The city has made an industry of the commercialization of Mozart, ...

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...

Biography: Mozart was born Jan. 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He died on Dec. 5, 1791 in Vienna. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. Leopold and ...